"Heaps' law" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: Named after Harold Stanley Heaps, but was originally discovered by Gustav Herdan. Head templates: {{en-proper noun|head=Heaps' law}} Heaps' law
  1. (linguistics) An empirical law that expresses the correlation between the length of a document or set of documents and the corresponding number of distinct words. Wikipedia link: Heaps' law Categories (topical): Computational linguistics, Linguistics
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